another country by james baldwin analysis

Rufus, who in the meantime had changed from a class drummer to a drunkard, and for this reason lost his job, wandered the streets of New York tormented by belated remorse. Internal anxiety makes Rufus to look for occasions for quarrels with Leon, tides of passion alternate with acute alienation, when Rufus insults Leon and even beats her.įrom the grief Leon is losing her mind, she is placed in a psychiatric hospital, where her brother visits and takes her home to the South. Rufus sharply feels that the world around him is hostile to their relationship - the love of the black and the white woman: it seemed to bristle against them.įormer complexes of an outcast from Harlem wake up in Rufus, which, it seemed to him, he overcame, moving to Greenwich Village and converging with a free circle of artistic bohemians, devoid of racial prejudice. But even the relatively free customs of the Greenwich Village are unbearable for them. Rufus and Leon fell in love and decided to live together. The woman has a difficult fate: her husband left her, taking the child, and the most difficult was that the relatives did not help her at this difficult moment. A young talented black musician Rufus gets acquainted with the southern Leon. The action takes place mainly in New York. Written by Julia Wolf, Lucille Garcia and other people who wish to remain anonymous

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Another country by james baldwin analysis